3-D Reconstruction of Flame Temperature Distribution Using Tomographic and Two-Color Pyrometric Techniques

Two-color pyrometric methods have been widely used in noncontact temperature measurement area. However, it is difficult to get synchronous monochromatic images for two-color pyrometric formula. Some researches use beam splitter to obtain two or more optical paths to capture the different monochromatic images, but the complex optical paths will bring spatiotemporal matching errors. Another method uses color camera to capture the Red, Green, Blue (RGB) channel images as the RGB monochromatic images, but substituting the Dirac delta function for spectral response function will result in the inaccuracy of the measurement results. In fact, the RGB monochromatic images can be obtained from the color image if the irradiance attenuations from color channel to single wavelength are calibrated. In this paper, a novel 3-D reconstruction method is proposed to measure the temperature distribution of combustion flame. First, the irradiance attenuations are calibrated to calculate the synchronous monochromatic images at R and G wavelengths. Second, the tomographic reconstruction of flame monochromatic emissive power is improved with visual hull restriction so that the energy distribution is more reasonable. Finally, the 3-D temperature distribution is calculated from the reconstructed monochromatic emissive power fields at R and G wavelengths using two-color pyrometric method. The alcohol and butane flames are tested in the laboratory-scale test rig. The experimental results indicate that our approach performs well in flame temperature field reconstruction.